The Web We Have to Save — "What are we exchanging for efficiency?" #

Lightyear.fm — terrestrial radio can't make it past a few light years, but who's counting #

mothgenerator — beautiful algorithmic insects #

What happens when you give email addresses to 70,000 trees? — oh, and the trees like to reply #

Patent troll lawsuits hit all-time high — 90% of high-tech patent lawsuits are filed by trolls #

New Yorker on the impending earthquake that will devastate the Pacific Northwest — some light Monday morning reading for all my Portland friends #

Public dataset of every Reddit comment — 1.7 billion comments, also on the Internet Archive #

Linkmoji — emoji short URLs, like so #

The Verge's profile on The Awl — deliberately staying small and focused, excluding an audience they don't care about #

Slack launches emoji reactions and voting — so much more expressive than a fav alone #

Loop Ring Chop Drink — stylish short animation about four dysfunctional strangers in an apartment building #

Nick Douglas on the Facebook "post-memes," a cousin of advice meme — like using cartoon mascots as emoji; related: The Awl on minions #

My GEL talk about videogames and my son — this was a fun one to do, Eliot was in the audience #

Calvin and Markov — Markov-generated comics from Josh Millard, creator of Garkov #

A Holacracy of Dunces — Paul Carr on Zappos' shift to a flat organization #

Reddit mutiny after AMA employee fired — many of the most popular subreddits went private, all the top posts are about it #

Every Single Word Spoken by a Person of Color — minority representation in mainstream films, like Her, Fault in Our Stars, and Noah #

Google's DeepDream open-sourced — incredible nightmare fodder on Reddit, Facebook, and Twitter, and more #

Sarah Jeong on the ICANN's disastrous proposal to kill domain privacy — a number of women's rights and digital rights groups wrote a letter to ICANN #

Augmented reality desktop with Oculus DK2 and prototype color Leap Motion — totally into this, though I'd guess the mouse/keyboard would be more convenient (via) #

On the road with DigiTour, one of several Vine celeb tours — boy bands without the bands, an audience almost entirely composed of young girls #

Hello, From the Magic Tavern — podcast from the magical land of Foom #

John Oliver on transgender rights — upsetting examples of how badly the media and government gets it wrong, and how easy it is to get it right #

GTA: Full House — the side by side cracked me up #

Gay marriage upheld by the Supreme Court — the entire ruling is worth reading, especially the hilariously awful Scalia dissent #

Emotica Online — an editable world made of emoji #

Her Story — the first full-motion video game I've ever enjoyed, highly recommended #

Hallucinating neural network on Twitch — give it something to dream about in the chat; here's how it works #

Transphobic joke detection — bots should punch up #

Building a primitive hut from scratch — Minecraft on extra-hard mode #

Rhyming Keyboard — built with pronouncing-js #

Tinsel — a tool for making phone tree-based games like, say, an audio Flappy Bird #

Who designed the Solo Jazz cup? — fun detective story spawned by a Reddit thread and cult following #

Google Sheep View  #

Fund on Etsy pilot — Etsy gets into crowdfunding #

mcdonalds.hiphop  #

Aaron Meyer's new homepage — try clicking his laptop on the right #

Reddit's former CEO explains the recent subreddit bans — "You are free to be an asshole on Reddit... but keep it on Reddit." #

Minecraft Hololens demo at E3 — won't be nearly as clear as that implies, but makes for an amazing demo #

All six Star Wars films at once — I like the technique they're using for blending, better than averaged #

The Last Guardian re-revealed — incredibly excited for this long-awaited sequel to ICO and Shadow of the Colossus #

MarI/O — machine learning Super Mario World #

XOXO 2015 is live, registrations now open — Zoe Quinn, Kathy Sierra, Talib Kweli, a Suck reunion, and much, much more #

Paul Ford's What Is Code? — a special 38,000 word essay, the bulk of the new double-issue of Businessweek; oh, and it's open-source #

Blade Runner: The B-Roll Cut — 45-minute version of the film made almost entirely from unused footage #

Twitter adds support for importing/exporting blocklists — a nice step #

the button has ended — more than two months and a million presses later #

favicon poetry — write using favicons from around the web #

Let's Consider — navigating phone trees as collective art #

Yahoo closes Pipes — sunsetting the long-neglected service that Tim O'Reilly once called "a milestone in the history of the internet" #